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Comparison

CockroachDB vs YugabyteDB

No clear leader: CockroachDB (63.3) and YugabyteDB (58.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

CockroachDB full profile →YugabyteDB full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
CockroachDB63
YugabyteDB59
Score
Vioscale score
CockroachDB63 / 100medium · 66%
YugabyteDB59 / 100medium · 71%
Pricing
Free tier
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Model
CockroachDBcommercial
YugabyteDBcommercial
Price level
CockroachDBlow
YugabyteDBhigh
Transparent
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Integrations
Count
CockroachDB8
YugabyteDB1
Security
Disclosure policy
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Gdpr
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Hipaa
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB–
Iso27001
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Pci
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB–
Scorecard
CockroachDB5.1
YugabyteDB–
Soc2
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
CockroachDB99.999
YugabyteDB–
Status page
CockroachDB–
YugabyteDB✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
CockroachDB235
YugabyteDB–
Github stars
CockroachDB32,415
YugabyteDB–
Activity
Commits last 30d
CockroachDB15
YugabyteDB–
Language
Primary
CockroachDBGo
YugabyteDB–
Market
Availability
CockroachDBAvailable worldwide
YugabyteDB–

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for relational databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
SQL model
CockroachDBFull SQL
YugabyteDBFull SQL
Transactions
ACID transactions
CockroachDBFull
YugabyteDBFull
Highest isolation level
CockroachDBSerializable
YugabyteDBSerializable
Consistency
Consistency
CockroachDBStrong
YugabyteDBStrong
Scale
Horizontal scale
CockroachDBNatively distributed
YugabyteDBNatively distributed
Replication
Replication
CockroachDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
YugabyteDBConsensus (Raft/Paxos)
Availability
Automatic failover / HA
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Deployment
Deployment
CockroachDBManaged
YugabyteDBSelf-hosted
Serverless / scale-to-zero
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB-
Compatibility
Wire compatibility
CockroachDBPostgres protocol
YugabyteDBPostgres protocol
Extensibility
Extensions / plugins / UDFs
CockroachDB✗
YugabyteDB✓
Licensing
Licence class
CockroachDBSource-available (BSL/SSPL)
YugabyteDBPermissive OSS
Data types
JSON / document support
CockroachDB✗
YugabyteDB✓
Geo / spatial
CockroachDBNone
YugabyteDB-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

CockroachDB

CockroachDB is a PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database designed for global applications requiring high availability, automatic scaling, and strong consistency across data centers. It eliminates downtime, simplifies operations, and scales seamlessly without manual intervention.

Independently observed

YugabyteDB

A distributed SQL database designed for mission-critical transactional data, available as open source software or managed cloud services with multi-region and high-availability capabilities.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

CockroachDB

HybridFree tier30-day trial

Free tier available with $400 in free credits. Provisioned capacity and on-demand pricing models for production workloads.

  • BasicFree
as of verify ↗

YugabyteDB

from $125/moHybridFree tier

From $125/vCPU/month. Free tier available. Storage and data transfer costs additional.

  • Standard$125/vCPU/month
    • PostgreSQL API (YSQL)
    • Cassandra API (YCQL)
    • Change Data Capture
    • Single-region fault tolerance
    • PostgreSQL extensions
    • +7 more
  • Professional$167/vCPU/month
    • All Standard features
    • Multi-region stretched clusters
    • Read Replicas
    • Row-level geo-partitioning for data residency
    • Performance Advisor
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Professional features
    • Customer Managed Keys (CMK) encryption at rest
    • Single Sign On via OpenID Connect (OIDC)
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB–
CLI
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB–
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
Self-hosted
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓
On-premise
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✗
Hybrid
CockroachDB✓
YugabyteDB✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

CockroachDB

15 total
  • Datadog
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace
  • New Relic
  • Terraform
  • Vercel
  • HashiCorp
  • pgvector
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • MOLT (Migration Tool)
  • PostgreSQL drivers
  • SQLAlchemy
Independently observed

YugabyteDB

1 total
  • Arctype SQL Client
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.